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Cal. CIV § 5405
California Statutes
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a) To assist with the identification of common interest developments, each association, whether incorporated or unincorporated, shall submit to the Secretary of State, on a form and for a fee not to exceed thirty dollars ($30) that the Secretary of State shall prescribe, the following information concerning the association and the development that it manages:
(1) A statement that the association is formed to manage a common interest development under the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act.
(2) The name of the association.
(3) The street address of the business or corporate office of the association, if any.
(4) The street address of the association’s onsite office, if different from the street address of the business or corporate office, or if there is no onsite office, the street address of the responsible officer or managing agent of the association.
(5) The name, address, and either the daytime telephone number or email address of the president of the association, other than the address, telephone number, or email address of the association’s onsite office or managing agent.
(6) The name, street address, and daytime telephone number of the association’s managing agent, if any.
(7) The county, and, if in an incorporated area, the city in which the development is physically located. If the boundaries of the development are physically located in more than one county, each of the counties in which it is located.
(8) If the development is in an unincorporated area, the city closest in proximity to the development.
(9) The front street and nearest cross street of the physical location of the development.
(10) The type of common interest development managed by the association.
(11) The number of separate interests in the development. (
b) The association shall submit the information required by this
section as follows:
(1) By incorporated associations, within days after the filing of its original articles of incorporation, and thereafter at the time the association files its statement of principal business activity with the Secretary of State pursuant to
Section of the Corporations Code.
(2) By unincorporated associations, in July 2003, and in that same month biennially thereafter. Upon changing its status to that of a corporation, the association shall comply with the filing deadlines in paragraph (1). (
c) The association shall notify the Secretary of State of any change in the street address of the association’s onsite office or of the responsible officer or managing agent of the association in the form and for a fee prescribed by the Secretary of State, within days of the change. (
d) The penalty for an incorporated association’s noncompliance with the initial or biennial filing requirements of this
section shall be suspension of the association’s rights, privileges, and powers as a corporation and monetary penalties, to the same extent and in the same manner as suspension and monetary penalties imposed pursuant to
Section of the Corporations Code. (
e) The statement required by this
section may be filed, notwithstanding suspension of the corporate powers, rights, and privileges under this
section or under provisions of the Revenue and Taxation Code. Upon the filing of a statement under this
section by a corporation that has suffered suspension under this section, the Secretary of State shall certify that fact to the Franchise Tax Board and the corporation may thereupon be relieved from suspension, unless the corporation is held in suspension by the Franchise Tax Board by reason of
Section 23301, 23301.5, or of the Revenue and Taxation Code. (
f) The Secretary of State shall make the information submitted pursuant to paragraph (5) of subdivision (
a) available only for governmental purposes and only to Members of the Legislature and the Business and Consumer Services Agency, upon written request. All other information submitted pursuant to this
section shall be subject to public inspection pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Division 10 (commencing with
Section 7920.000) of Title of the Government Code). The information submitted pursuant to this
section shall be made available for governmental or public inspection. (
g) Whenever any form is filed pursuant to this section, it supersedes any previously filed form. (
h) The Secretary of State may destroy or otherwise dispose of any form filed pursuant to this
section after it has been superseded by the filing of a new form. (
i) The amendments made to this
section by the act adding this subdivision shall become operative on July 1, 2026.